Hello kind reader, I'd like to think I'm a friendly combination of
traits; A playfully cynical hippy-hypocrite who watches the world
with wide eyes, smiles a lot and on occasion hides in caverns,
stalagmited by doubt. I have a pretty acerbic sense of humour and
enjoy standing at a slight angle to this ridiculous culture.

Um
I come from England. I talk fancy.
I'd like to contribute to a different cultural vision to the
progress/growth/autonomy-from-nature story (but I wouldn't say I'm
particularly living up to that).
Um
As I type this, it is the evening before driving all my stuff up to
Oakland from Irvine. Irvine is not where I wanted to live reader. I
took a job, for various reasons themselves worthy of serious
scrutiny, which I have just been fired from. A
sit-for-11-hours-in-front-of-a-computer job. Strange.
Um
In the past year or two I've:
-illustrated a series of children's books for eccentric
Californians
-tutored teenagers
-studied a maths degree
-programmed for an image-production company
-started designing a game
-stayed silent for 10 days
-felt connected to my environment, smiled at things and danced
through days
-felt separate from it, glanced around and worried about my
time
Um
Between me and you kind reader, I've no idea what I'm doing.

Books:
Non-fiction:
Godel Escher Bach, Brainstorms, Ishmael, The Gutenberg galaxy,
Silent Spring, The World Without Us.
Fiction:
Interested in the spacialising (almost a word) of metaphors seen in
Candide, the Anatomy of Melancholy or The Divine Comedy.
had a glorious time getting lost in Finnegans wake. Liked
Drood.

Films: Meeks Cutoff, Old Joy, Primer, Schizopolis, Last Train Home
- partial to concept films with one word-titles they repeatedly
mention in the script: "Did he touch the Sphere?", "It was in the
Mist", "WE'VE GOT TO GET OUT OF THIS CUBE!"...

-You like unconventional, ambitious thinking that gets itself
lost
-You aren't a super aspirational/consumer-capitalist type.
-You are listening to: http://youarelistening.to/
-You are full of play

-If you were up for a job in my (less than factual) impression of
1950's America, your prospective boss might say "you got big ideas
kid"
-You have big ideas
-You have the inkling our culture may not be best expression of our
species